Cities, counties and states keep queuing up to offer hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to win bidding contests for new professional sports venues that are pitched as centerpieces for massive new economic development projects.
The developments that are promised along with your favorite team don't always materialize and now there are signs that the appetite of public officials to keep funding these big-ticket initiatives finally may be waning.
The NFL, an enterprise estimated to be worth more than $15B (after more people watched the Super Bowl than the first moon landing, maybe that's $20B), has perfected its technique for pitting locations against each other as it aims for the biggest wad of public cash to finance new sports palaces for its teams.
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